Join us for the Feerick Center Speaker Series to hear from social justice practitioners and lawyers.

Deyanira Del Río

Deyanira (she/her) is the co-director of New Economy Project, a citywide organization that works with community groups to build a just economy rooted in racial and neighborhood equity, cooperation, and ecological sustainability. Deyanira has worked for 25 years to promote cooperative and community-controlled finance, immigrants’ economic rights, and equitable neighborhood development in New York City. At New Economy Project, she has worked on campaigns to fight wealth extraction and inequality in our financial system and economy, and to promote community land trusts, public banking, and neighborhood-led development. She also co-designed the organization's foreclosure prevention, DACA, and new economy loan funds. Deyanira is a board member and former chair of the Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union, a citywide financial cooperative serving historically redlined neighborhoods, and previously served on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Community Advisory Group, among other roles. She is the recipient of the Frances Perkins Working People's Award from the Fiscal Policy Institute, the Revson Fellowship, and the Mujeres Destacadas award from El Diario/La Prensa.\